The good and the bad

There's an advert on TV at the moment (Egg Credit Card I think) that says when something clever happens somewhere, something stupid happens somewhere else to offset it. Silly advert, but amusing, and unfortunately it does seem true of life.

For the past eight months I have had a running battle with Virgin Media (Cable TV/Broadband supplier) about my bill - they keep getting it wrong, sometimes VERY wrong. But all sorted now. Successfully applied for my passport, and completed my first two OU assignments of the new year way before time, and that never ever happens.

So on the face of it, all going well. That is until I ordered some books off Amazon. They were in stock, and I chose the free, super-saver delivery method. So why do they take a month to be dispatched (they were in stock) and then when they are dispatched, one of them can't be because it is NOW out of stock. Why wait the month?!

I also ordered two copies of the Alien Quadrilogy box set, one for me and one for my sister. Mine arrived fine, hers hasn't arrived yet. Phone call there then.

And then there is work, trying to roll out Windows XP without fully testing it first. I know, why are we rolling out XP only now when Vista has just been released? What can I say, I'm just glad we've actually moved from Windows 2000 to XP, at least we are moving forward. A bit more testing would not go a miss though. So far we are two days into our office being XP (the only office too), and we're firefighting little issues. Not work-stoppers admittedly, but small issues, and personally I don't think we should be putting XP on peoples desktops whilst we're still finding these little issues. Doesn't reflect well on us as a section. But that's just my opinion.

On a happier note, Blu-Ray seems to have won the format war against HD-DVD. Yay!!!
Can't tell you how happy I am on that one. Some people seem to saying that HD-DVD should have won as i was the better format, but personally I don't see it myself.

Thought for the weak:
A friend of mine gave me this book for Christmas, and whilst it is full of handy hints on how not to let things in life get you down, the best seems to be the title:
"Don't sweat the small stuff" and don't forget "It's all small stuff".
Words to live by if ever there were any :)